The Plant Cycle

Developmental Lesson Plan

Teacher Candidate: Amanda Guldin

Date: 3/3/23 Group Size: 20 Allotted Time: Grade Level: 1st grade
Subject or Topic: Parts and Functions
Common Core/PA Standard(s):
3.1.3.A5.
Identify the structures in plants that are responsible for food production, support, water
transport, reproduction, growth, and protection.
3.1.3.A2.
Describe the basic needs of living things and their dependence on light, food, air, water, and
shelter.
Learning Targets/Objectives:
Students will learn how to take care of a plant.
Assessment Approaches: Evidence:
1. authentic 1. creative assessment
2. Post assessment 2. post
3.
Assessment Scale:
1. Rubric
2. 9/9 advance
8/9 proficient
7/9 basic
6 and below/9 below basic
Subject Matter/Content:

Prerequisites:
fruits
vegetables
flowers
grass
sponge
Plants
seed
root
stem
leaves
fruit
flower
their functions
Photosynthesis
soil/dirt
water
air
 The Plant Cycle

sunlight

Key Vocabulary:

Content/Facts:

Anticipatory Set

● read a book
○ Sprout branches out

Development/Teaching Approaches
● see if the students know already what plants need in order to care for them.
○ have them circle and cross out what a plant needs and doesn’t need.
● then review the plant parts and where they are
● then go into activity of making a watering can and putting what the plants needs and
labeling it onto the watering can
○ then add decal if the students want and color if they want
● The dandelion seed book
○ at the end, I will have the students do a creative assessment
■ They have to label four sections of a paper of the plant cycle and draw
their very own plant.

Closure/Summarizing Strategies:

● Post assessment
○ same as the test we took at the beginning of the unit.

Accommodations/Differentiation:

Materials/Resources:

● PP
● books
●
 The Plant Cycle

Reflective Response:
Report of Student Learning Target/Objectives Proficiency Levels

The students were able to tell me if the plant needs the item or doesn’t need the said item and
why they would or wouldn’t need them. The students were able to correctly tell me the plant
parts and functions. With the watering can the students were good to tell me the 4 main things a
plant needs. With the creation of their own plant, all but one student were able to do what I asked
correctly. The one just forgot to label one section of their paper.

For this lesson, I would stick to one thing at a time and complete it then. I jumped from the
watering can to the creation plant project and back to the watering can.

For the post assessment The students were able to show growth from the test scores from the
beginning to retaking it after teaching about plants.